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The Maiden (Maiden Lane)
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The maiden, enters and commences her desperate refrain in a contralto voice:
“Pass over me! Pass over me! Go, you wild man-of-bones! I am still young. Go, rather, And don’t touch me And don’t touch me!”
But how could Death resist? When in the midst of this landscape of harsh, towering
skyscrapers – mirroring the highly agitated nature of the maiden’s refrain – dozens of maidens, in the
flower of their youth, slink by, without a care in the world.
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4 – Continental Center (1982) in the middle, Wall Street Plaza (1973), by I. M. Pei to the right, contrasted against a building from the 1930s, to the left.
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5 – A maiden slinks across the street at the junction of Maiden Lane and Water Street. Behind her is 8- Pine Street (1961), designed by Emery Roth & Sons.
6 – A banker smokes on the other side of Maiden Lane and Water Street. To his left is Water Street Plaza (1959), by Sylvan and Robert Bien.
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7 – A maiden slinks down Maiden Lane. Behind her is the headquarters of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1919 – 35), designed by York & Sawyer in the style of a Renaissance fortress.
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8 – A maiden sits with her gentleman friend at Nevelson Plaza, adorned with Shadows by Flags, by artist Louise Nevelson.
9 – A maiden slinks by the Renaissance Fortress that is the New York Fed. This building holds the largest stock of gold in the world, in its basement vaults.